The aim of this study is to analyze gender differences in perception of hagiotherapy in therapeutic process of men and women addiction treatment in the Psychiatric hospital Bohnice. The first part of the thesis is intended to be a theoretical framework for the following practical survey and this part deals with the terms of gender, gender differences in addiction, gender specific addiction and recovery treatment and describes the existential psychotherapy, the group psychotherapy and hagiography as a special form of group existential psychotherapy. The second part of the thesis deals with the research, which contains utterances of 16 respondents who took part in the hagiotherapy in the Psychiatric hospital Bohnice. A method of semi- structured interview was used and the utterances were analyzed in detail in order to reveal gender differences. The method of the open and axial coding were used, particular categories were described and compared. The research part of the thesis confirms that there truly are major gender differences between men and women in treatment, but not in the perception of the hagiotherapy, but in the way they process singular impulses and in the way they are affected by the hagiotherapy. Gender plays a major role in several aspects and the most significant differences can be...

This diploma thesis aims for broad issue religious conversion especially in the case of the Apostle Paul. It is psychological and theological reflection of his conversion to Christianity, as described by the canonical New Testament texts. The forepartof the thesis reports theoretically into the location of the conversion of the Apostle Paul in the Acts of the Apostles and Paul's epistles. For the purpose of this diploma thesis the author describes briefly hagiotherapy method, a technique that combines knowledge of psychology and theology. The author focuses on the psychological perspective on religious conversion, its history and current state of research. The closing section of the thesis combines views of psychology and theology. Special attention aims at Paul's personality, which is described with the help of psychological terminology. Keywords: Religious conversion, The Apostle Paul, psychology of religion, hagiotherapy.

The thesis works with Czech translation of apofthegmats - stories of fathers of desert. The thesis focuses on topic of sadness, anger and acedia. The thesis is based on apofthegmats and on the spirituality of desert. From this point of view the thesis makes analysis of the structure of pastoral work with sadness, anger and acedia. The thesis is following some actual authors who are working with spirituality of desert, too. Due to immanent dimension of spirituality of desert the thesis is reflecting psychological approach and refers to actual psychological methods which help a man to live with sadness, anger and acedia.

KYNCLOVÁ, Dana. Biblical Stories in Hagiotherapy and Pastoral Care. Praha, 2013. Master's thesis. Charles University. Faculty of Education. Department of Psychology. Supervisor M. Kucera. Keywords: pastoral care, hagiotherapy, Christianity, integrated approach, psychology, theology, spirituality, religion, psychotherapy, Bible, Bible stories, exegesis, existential psychotherapy This thesis deals with the relationship of hagiotherapy and pastoral care on the basis of their approach to work with motifs from biblical stories. The theoretical framework of the study are various findings on the relationship of psychology and theology and their application disciplines of psychotherapy and pastoral care from a clear definition of the boundaries of both disciplines to their integration. Due to the default assumption that personality is composed of bio-psycho-social-spiritual needs, an integrative model has the potential to meet human needs in this wholeness. Hagiotherapy, as a direction of existential psychotherapy using Bible stories as a therapeutic tool, is close in nature to pastoral care and this fact gave rise to the research project. The aim of the research is to determine how hagiotherapy and pastoral care work with the motifs of biblical stories and whether it is possible to find similarities in...

The aim of this work is to describe hagiotherapy as a suitable psychoterapic method for work with psychological difficulties of workers in helping professions. The first chapter is dedicated to the hagiotherapy description, its development, selected philosophical solutions, its procedure and targeted groups in which the hagiotherapy is applied. The second chapter is dedicated to psychical difficulties of workers in helping professions and is focused on the following phenomena: helper syndrome, power in helping professions, burnout syndrome. The third chapter reveals the authorś assumptions, the reasons why she considers the hagiotherapy a suitable supporting means for workers in helping professions. In the fourth chapter an illustrative investigation is presented which is supposed to answer the question: What impact did the hagiotherapy have in the life of worker in helping professions? This question was answered by the participants of the illustrative investigation, who are workers in helping professions and completed hagiotherapy trainings. For the analysis of their answers in the illustrative investigation the elements of grounded theory were used.